Definitions
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- adjective of a sound Resembling a
squawk ; raw and grating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg
Etymologies
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Examples
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Reid remembers their "squawky dog, a Chihuahua mutt."
Sen. Mike Lee: A political insider refashions himself as tea party revolutionary Philip Rucker 2011
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Having learned to play guitar at roughly the same time Hannah, 26, taught Colette, 28, when they were living with their parents at home in Bristol, they first formed a squawky, thrashing punk band named Vulgarians in 2007.
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Somewhere down the road, somebody got it into their head that kids won't watch it unless the themes are saccharine, the voices high and squawky, and there just happens to be some kind of jabbering animal wandering around.
A review for INK wendigomountain 2009
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To balance this out, the pregnant Venus a squawky Stephanie Friede—whose retinue included several spermlike tadpoles—gave birth, completing the circle of life.
At Richard Wagner's Old Stamping Grounds Heidi Waleson 2011
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They got the nightvision goongoggles, they got that full body armor, they got them gasmasks latched on, they hear the squawky voice in the head phones, they got the GPS locator's, the heat sensor hound dog, they got the dragnet spread out, they got their charts and planning.
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They got the nightvision goongoggles, they got that full body armor, they got them gasmasks latched on, they hear the squawky voice in the head phones, they got the GPS locator's, the heat sensor hound dog, they got the dragnet spread out, they got their charts and planning.
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That weird little squawky noise started as the dial-up modem engaged and POOF!
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“Adam-one-nine, you there?” came a squawky call on the radio.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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They got the nightvision goongoggles, they got that full body armor, they got them gasmasks latched on, they hear the squawky voice in the head phones, they got the GPS locator's, the heat sensor hound dog, they got the dragnet spread out, they got their charts and planning.
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They got the nightvision goongoggles, they got that full body armor, they got them gasmasks latched on, they hear the squawky voice in the head phones, they got the GPS locator's, the heat sensor hound dog, they got the dragnet spread out, they got their charts and planning.
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